It's not often you meet someone in the tech industry for whom the only way is up, but Intel's Michael A. Bell is one of those people.CNET From ACM Opinion | June 19, 2012
It's been an action-packed two years since Jeff Jaffe took over as the World Wide Web Consortium's chief executive, but more action is the order of the day at...CNET From ACM Opinion | March 8, 2012
British tabloid News of the World said it is closing down over a phone hacking scandal in which workers for the Rupert Murdoch-owned newspaper allegedly snooped...CNET From ACM News | July 11, 2011
Thirty years ago, Andy Hertzfeld was a young computer engineer working at Apple Computer on the first Macintosh under the leadership of Steve Jobs. As Jobs had...CNET From ACM Opinion | July 7, 2011
Android is open-source software, but it doesn't come with much of an open-source community, and the Google leader of the project explained why.CNET From ACM News | May 17, 2011
A year ago, Ralph Langner was plugging away in relative obscurity, doing security consulting work for the industrial control system industry in his Hamburg headquarters...CNET From ACM News | May 13, 2011
Jeff Jaffe's job requires both patience and impatience. Patience, because the World Wide Web Consortium—of which he's been chief executive for nearly a year—is...CNET From ACM Opinion | March 14, 2011
As smartphones using Google's Android operating system become mainstream, James Steele and Nelson To are in a pretty good position.CNET From ACM Opinion | December 30, 2010
Whether you know him by name, you almost certainly have firsthand experience with some of Nolan Bushnell's work. He's known by many as the father of video games...CNET From ACM Opinion | November 17, 2010
The director of the National Center for Supercomputing Applications has seen the future of supercomputing and it can be summed up in three letters: GPU.CNET From ACM News | November 2, 2010
Cigital CTO Gary McGraw and colleagues examined 30 companies' secure software development practices to create a measurement instrument that companies could use...CNet From ACM TechNews | May 18, 2010
For Marc Maiffret, the turning point in his life came when—at the age of 17—he woke up to an FBI agent pointing a gun at his head. A runaway and high school dropout...CNet From ACM Opinion | April 15, 2010
Amit Yoran, former cybersecurity director for the U.S. Department of Homeland Security, agrees with the findings of a review commissioned by President Barack Obama...CNet From ACM TechNews | October 8, 2009
It's been a year since Bill Gates left full-time work at Microsoft, but he's found plenty to keep him busy. In between trying to eradicate polio, tame malaria,Microsoft...CNet From ACM Opinion | July 15, 2009